WHETHER THE INVESTIGATION
OF THE ELEPHANT
THROUGH THE LOUPE
IS A GOOD METHOD?

Let us notice:

• If I always look through the loupe on the skin of the elephant, then:
  • I will never see the elephant en bloc,
  • I will never know that elephants exist.

The Formgeschichte method presupposes that the text of the Bible must be broken into smaller units of the definite class of literature, but does not assume that the each book in its canonical form (i.e. the form given for each book by its last hagiographer–editor, inspired by God), has the literary structure being superior over these units and ordering the manner of the interpretation of these units.